In the latest blow from a dayslong chain of severe weather across the South and Midwest, the Florida Panhandle and Alabama Gulf Coast were hit with widespread flooding early Wednesday, with people stranded in cars and homes waiting for rescuers to find a way around impassable roads and others abandoning...

Private Jimmy Shirley, 7th Florida Volunteer Infantry, Company B, staggers back, a series of bullets ripping into his chest. He slumps and falls on his face, dead. His wispy gray whiskers tangle in the tall grasses of this Civil War battlefield. But no blood oozes from the fabric of his butternut gray...

With its low-slung ranch-style buildings and Old West decor, River Ranch, the state’s largest dude ranch, canters close to the hokey side of the corral, but it does so in a place that’s been authentic cowboy country for 150 years. Visitors can spend a weekend pretending to be Florida Cracker...

Florida Power & Light’s pole-by-pole restoration of than 1,000 lights along Florida’s coasts began Friday, a day after a record-breaking turtle-nesting season ended. The company darkens or shields streetlights near the Atlantic and Gulf coasts every year to prevent sea turtles from becoming...

Little Mama, the 73-year-old matriarch of the chimpanzee family at Lion Country Safari in Loxahatchee, is believed to be oldest chimp in captivity by no less an authority than famed anthropologist Jane Goodall, who first met Little Mama in 1972 when she passed through Palm Beach on a book tour. Lion...